4 reviews
Sales Rank: 107

Genre: rap-hip-hop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes

ASIN: B001L8G8DS

Publication Date: November 24, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Very Nice! December 13, 2008
L. Holmes Jr.
Ludacris almost takes it back to the "old-school" with this one. Its almost like the storytelling raps of the 80's and not the bragadocious, drinking, flossing, booty crap of today. You can ride out to this entire CD. In a couple of the songs, like "I Do It For Hip-Hop", he lets the seemingly forgotten DJ shine by exhibiting quite a bit of cutting and scratching. Quite refreshing. You never know what you are going to get with Luda. This is easily one of the best albums of the year, if not THE best. When artists realize that its not the beats alone, but the lyrics and subject matter that make a great album, maybe hip-hop will return to its glory. If not, mourn for it, because it will be dead.

4 out of 5 stars

Well produced, but a little too "pop variety" for me. December 10, 2008
C. Kime (Atlanta, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

All of the tracks are well produced and there is not much filler (eg: tracks with just skits on them) on this album. A lot of the "skit" material is worked into themed songs which are creative and well orchestrated and mixed.

Some of this album comes off sounding too "pop variety show" for me, though, and I don't really care for Everybody Hates Chris or the slow tracks (excluding One More Drink.) This may just be a personal thing.

The tracks that really show off southern hip hop do it with great effect. Wish You Would, Call up the Homies, Last of a Dying Breed, I Do It for Hip Hop are all fantastic. The good tracks are amazing, and leave me wishing the whole album was filled up with these instead of feeling like a variety album.

Fans of just one style may feel the album is lacking. If you like a lot of the styles that are popular in hip hop nowadays, this album delivers a good mix of different flavors, but if you're hitting the skip over some tracks, you may end up enjoying half an album worth of entertainment.

The mixing and production is top-notch. Pop hip hop (hate to say it but this style of hip hop is pop nowadays) has a great new album addition.

5 out of 5 stars

One of the best hip hop albums of 2008 December 3, 2008
Mitchell Hoffman
Luda continues to improve with Theater of the Mind. "MVP" is a DJ Premier joint that has the classic Preemo beat with awesome wordplay by Luda. The "Last of a Dying Breed" includes a return to form for Lil Wayne with a verse that actually makes sense as well as Luda speaking his mind about media criticisms. "I Do It For Hip Hop" is an instant classic with Jay-z and Nas bringing heat. Another favorite of mine is "Call up the homies" featuring Game. Every song is more than decent with quite a few being songs you can listen to over and over. A must buy for Hip Hop fans!

5 out of 5 stars

SNL November 24, 2008
K Money (California, USA)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful

Saw Luda's performance on Saturday Night Live and loved it. Bought the mp3s and hope that the rest of the songs are as good as the ones he performed!

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